 ... consult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed, or reward any evil and wicked spirit to or for any intent or purpose; or take up any dead man, woman, or child out of his, her, or their grave, or any other place where the dead body...  History of the middle and working classes - Page 52by John Wade - 1833Full view - About this book
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1858 - 586 pages
...sport. And what are we to think of the humanity of the times when neither Coke nor Lord Bacon opposed the law suggested by royal superstition, for making it felony to consult, covenant with, or reward any evil or wicked spirit, and even the generous Sir Matthew Hale could leave a man for execution... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Economics - 1859 - 618 pages
...made against conjuration, witchcraft, and dealing with evil and wicked spirits; by which it was made felony to consult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed, or reward, any evil and wicked spirit, &c. Now it is indisputable, that many hundreds, if not thousands, of poor superannuated women have... | |
 | Scotland - 1859 - 910 pages
...legal, clerical, and domestic cruelty with horror. * The clause of the statute makes it я capital felony to " consult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed, or reward any evil or wicked spirit, to or for any intent or purpose." — Just., iii., c. vi. f HuTCHiNSOtf's I/istoricaJ... | |
 | Witchcraft - 1866 - 636 pages
...practice, or exercife any Invocation, or Conjuration of any evil and wicked Spirit, or mail confult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed or reward any evil and wicked Spirit, to or for any Intent and Purpofe : or take up any dead Man, Woman or Child, out of his, her or their... | |
 | Witchcraft - 1866 - 358 pages
...practice, or exercife any Invocation, or Conjuration of any evil and wicked Spirit, or fhall confult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed or reward any evil and wicked Spirit, to or for any Intent and Purpofe : or take up any dead Man, Woman or Child, out of his, her or their... | |
 | Law - 1884 - 550 pages
...bones, and all sorts of sorceries. The parliament of James solemnly enacted, "that if any person should consult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed or reward any evil and wicked spirit to or for any intent or purpose, or take up any dead man, woman, or child out of his, her, or their... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1877 - 531 pages
...shall use, practice, or exercise any invocation or conjuration of any evil and wicked spirit, or shall consult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed, or reward any evil and wicked spirit, to or for any intent or purpose, or take up any dead man, woman, or child, out of his, her, or their... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1877 - 544 pages
...shall use, practice, or exercise any invocation or conjuration of any evil and wicked spirit, or shall consult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed, or reward any evil and wicked spirit, to or for any intent or purpose, or take up any dead man, woman, or child, out of his, her, or their... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - Law - 1879 - 822 pages
...shall use, practice or exercise any invocation or conjuration of any evil and wicked spirit, or shall consult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed or reward any evil and wicked spirit, to or for any intent or purpose, or take up any dead man, woman or child, out of his, her or their... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1882 - 540 pages
...shall use, practice, or exercise any invocation or conjuration of any evil and wicked spirit, or shall consult, covenant with, entertain, employ, feed, or reward any evil and wicked spirit, to or for any intent or purpose, or take up any dead man, woman, or child, out of his, her, or their... | |
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